I want to delete folder named 'RECYCLED'

Tonight I was cleaning up, deleting files on my WinME computer. A lot of
them were copied there from a CD that I burnt on my old Win98SE computer -
which had a 'broken' recycle bin. I heard about a 'broken recycle bin a
long time ago but I don't remember what causes it. Now I have this goddam
'RECYCLED' folder on my WinME machine. I had one of these on my Win98SE
computer. I believe it means I have a broken recycle bin. Have you ever
seen one of these 'RECYCLED' folders? You can't delete the files out of it.
They keep coming back when you delete them. Maybe they even multiply - I
don't know.

Does anybody know how to get rid of the RECYCLED folder and make the recycle
bin work normally again. I'm willing to do a lot of work to fix it - I'll
wipe the system clean if I have to. But I'm hoping for a less drastic
solution.

TIA. Bill S.

You can't get rid of the Recycled folder. That is where the Recycle
Bin keeps its files. I have a Recycled folder on each partition and
that is normal.

Read this for a start:
Recycled Folder Icon Appears in Directory Listing Instead of Recycle
Bin Icon
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231838/en-us

You may find some of these of interest:
http://support.microsoft.com/search/...v=1&range=1-28

....Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html



On Wed, 31 May 2006 22:20:39 -0700, in
microsoft.public.windowsme.general, "Wrong Attitude"
wrote:

Tonight I was cleaning up, deleting files on my WinME computer. A lot of
them were copied there from a CD that I burnt on my old Win98SE computer -
which had a 'broken' recycle bin. I heard about a 'broken recycle bin a
long time ago but I don't remember what causes it. Now I have this goddam
'RECYCLED' folder on my WinME machine. I had one of these on my Win98SE
computer. I believe it means I have a broken recycle bin. Have you ever
seen one of these 'RECYCLED' folders? You can't delete the files out of it.
They keep coming back when you delete them. Maybe they even multiply - I
don't know.

Does anybody know how to get rid of the RECYCLED folder and make the recycle
bin work normally again. I'm willing to do a lot of work to fix it - I'll
wipe the system clean if I have to. But I'm hoping for a less drastic
solution.

TIA. Bill S.

Hi WrongAttitude,

Try the following sequence. On rebooting after this cleanup, windows will
reinstall a new "Recycled" folder.


1 Boot to CDROM support (Option 2 on Boot Disk)
2 C: RET
3 dir/p RET (any key to continue scrolling)
4 RECYCLED directory should be there
5 attrib -h -s -a c:\recycled RET
6 deltree c:\recycled RET
7 dir/p RET (any key to continue scrolling)
8 RECYCLED directory should not be there
9 Reboot to windows.

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Tonight I was cleaning up, deleting files on my WinME computer. A lot of
them were copied there from a CD that I burnt on my old Win98SE computer -
which had a 'broken' recycle bin. I heard about a 'broken recycle bin a
long time ago but I don't remember what causes it. Now I have this goddam
'RECYCLED' folder on my WinME machine. I had one of these on my Win98SE
computer. I believe it means I have a broken recycle bin. Have you ever
seen one of these 'RECYCLED' folders? You can't delete the files out of
it.
They keep coming back when you delete them. Maybe they even multiply - I
don't know.

Does anybody know how to get rid of the RECYCLED folder and make the
recycle
bin work normally again. I'm willing to do a lot of work to fix it - I'll
wipe the system clean if I have to. But I'm hoping for a less drastic
solution.

TIA. Bill S.